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Date:      Wed, 10 Jul 2002 22:09:30 -0500
From:      David J Duchscher <daved@nostrum.com>
To:        "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
Cc:        neal@nelson.name, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: D-Link DWL-520
Message-ID:  <9DD3D7D6-947B-11D6-913C-0003930B3DA4@nostrum.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020702164846.GA256@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es>

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On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 11:48 AM, Jose M. Alcaide wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:47:31AM -0500, David J Duchscher wrote:
>> On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 03:51 AM, Jose M. Alcaide wrote:
>>> Are you using 128-bit WEP? There are problems with the Prism-2.5 based
>>> DWL-650 (see PR kern/39928) and I wonder whether the DWL-520 is also
>>> affected or not.
>>
>> It might be.  I consider WEP to be pretty much worthless so I use other
>> means to secure the network.  I willing to test the card if there is
>> interest in knowing for sure.
>
> Please, do it ;-) I am using IPSEC anyway, but any information that 
> could
> help to fix wi(4) (or adding a workaround for a firmware bug) will be
> useful. Don't forget to include the wi(4) initialization messages in 
> your
> test report. My DWL-650 is identified as:
>
> wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3873
> wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.07, Station 1.03.05
>
> I can trigger the problem sending a file such as /kernel via scp or ftp.
> Be advised: your system may hang, and since the DWL-520 does not use a
> removable pccard, you may need to reset the system.

Well finally got some time to try this out and I can not make it fail.  
Boot
messages for my card are:

wi0: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xe8001000-0xe8001fff irq 10 at device 12.0 
on pci0
wi0: 802.11 address: 00:05:5d:da:60:c9
wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI)
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.05, Station 1.03.04

So it looks like the DWL-520 doesn't have this problem.

DaveD


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